The Anatomical Instructor: Or, An Illustration of the Modern and Most Approved Methods of Preparing and Preserving the Different Parts of the Human Body, and of Quadrupeds, by Injection, Corrosion, Maceration, Distention, Articulation, Modelling, &c., with a Variety of Copper-plates

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J. Calow and T. Underwood, 1813 - 202 pagina's
 

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Pagina 99 - The bones are to be laid in clean water, of such a depth as entirely to cover them, which water should be changed every day for about a week, or as long as it becomes discoloured with blood ; then permit them to remain without changing, till putrefaction has thoroughly destroyed all the remaining flesh and ligaments ; this will require from three to six months, more or less, according to the season of the year, or temperature of the atmosphere, &c. In the extremities of the large cylindrical bones,...
Pagina 198 - First Lines of the Practice of Surgery, being an Elementary Work for Students, and a concise Book of Reference for Practitioners. By Samuel Cooper, Member »f the Royal College of Surgeons, &c.
Pagina 99 - ... should be removed from bones intended for preparation as possible with the scalpel, but it is not required that they should be separated from each other, more than is necessary for placing them in a vessel for the purpose of maceration. The bones are to be entirely covered with water, which should be changed every day for about a week, or as long as it becomes discoloured with blood ; after which, allow them to remain in water without changing till putrefaction has thoroughly destroyed all the...
Pagina 151 - ... a painter's brush ; the face is then to be first covered with fine fluid plaster, beginning at the upper part of the forehead, and spreading it over the eyes, which are to be kept close, that the plaster may not come in contact with the globe ; yet not closed so strongly as to cause any unnatural wrinkles. Cover then the nose and ears, plugging first up the...
Pagina 137 - Ae whole substance, until it be every where covered to> such a thickness as to give a proper substance to the mould, which may vary in proportion to the size. The whole must then be suffered to remain in this condition till the plaster has attained its hardness ; when the frame is taken away, the mould may be inverted, and the subject removed from it ; and when the plaster is thoroughly dry let it be well seasoned.
Pagina 197 - The London Dissector; or, System of dissection, practised in the hospitals and lecture rooms of the metropolis : explained by the clearest rules, for the use of students ; comprising a description of the muscles, vessels, nerves, and viscera, of the human body, as they appear on dissection; with directions for their demonstration.
Pagina 100 - In drying bones they should not be exposed to the rays of the sun, or to a fire, as too great a degree of heat brings the remaining medullary oil into the compact substance of the bones, and gives them a disagreeable oily transparency. This is the great objection to the process of boiling bones, for the purpose of making skeletons, as the heat applied in that way has the same effect, unless they are boiled in...
Pagina 105 - Ants will enter numerously at these holes and eat away all the fleshy parts, leaving only the bones and connecting ligaments ; they may be afterwards macerated in clean water for a day or two to extract the bloody...
Pagina 100 - ... a solution of pearl-ash, which some are of opinion is one of the most effectual methods of whitening them by its effectually destroying the oil. But there can be but little doubt that bleaching is, of all methods, the most effectual where it can be done to its greatest advantage, namely, in a pure air, and more especially on a sea shore. It is much more difficult to clean the bones of animals that have died in good condition than those that are lean and reduced by disease. OF NATURAL SKELETONS....
Pagina 151 - Cover then the nose and ears, plugging first up the meatus and torii with cotton, and the nostrils with a small quantity of- tow rolled up, of a proper size, to exclude the plaster. During the time that the nose is thus stopped, the person is to breathe through the mouth : in this state the fluid plaster is to be brought down low enough to cover the upper lip, observing to leave the rolls of tow projecting out of the plaster. When the operation is thus far carried on, the plaster must be suffered...

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